By AFP/Anuj Chopra with Chayanit Itthipongmaetee and Claire-Line NassAI deepfakes, video game footage passed off as real combat, and chatbot-generated...

By AFPThe UK has cut its carbon emissions by 50.4 percent since 1990 levels, a group of experts tasked with advising the government said on Wednesday....

By AFPThe United Nations human rights chief urged Sri Lanka on Tuesday to ensure accountability for crimes committed during its protracted ethnic war....

By AFP/Adrien Simorre and Peter CatterallThe world is facing the "most complex" geopolitical situation seen in decades, the head of the World Economic...

By AFP/Mary KULUNDU and Eric RANDOLPHMarches in Kenya to mark a year since massive anti-government demos turned violent on Wednesday, with eight kille...

By AFPThe Trump administration said it will open up vast areas of pristine national forest to development and timber harvesting, stripping away protec...

By AFPSave the Children said Monday it had witnessed a "horrifying" spike in the number of children being sexually assaulted in DR Congo, recording mo...

By AFP/Rigoberto DIAZWith a monthly pension barely sufficient to buy 15 eggs or a small bag of rice, Cuba's elderly struggle to make ends meet in one...

By AFP/Daniel LawlerEfforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases are faltering across the world due to economic inequality, Covid-era disrupt...

By AFP/Kenan AugeardMany others had rushed to the beach to cool off in the heat, but French retiree Sylvie Baudelet and another volunteer were busy ha...

By AFP/Guillaume LAVALLÉEMahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviv...

By AFP/Ana FERNÁNDEZTens of millions of Americans sweltered outside or sought air-conditioned refuge as an "extremely dangerous" heat wave blanketed t...

By AFP/Glenn CHAPMANA US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without aut...

By AFPIn Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a global shortage of th...

By AFP/Nina LARSON with Sebastien ASHThe United Nations on Tuesday condemned what it said was Israel's "weaponisation of food" in Gaza and called it a...

By AFPGaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed another 46 people waiting for aid in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday as rights group...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDSasha and Jamie Cordle thought their small farm in rural Georgia would be a ladder out of working-class struggle, and a gift for the...

By AFPA Bangladesh court on Monday remanded in custody the former elections chief for his alleged role in rigging the vote in favour of now-ousted aut...

By AFP/Nathalie OLOF-ORSThe global art market is not immune to current economic and geopolitical tensions, and is counting on a new generation of coll...

By AFP/Emmanuel ANULELeaders from the west African bloc ECOWAS on Sunday admitted during talks in the Nigerian capital that the region was in trouble,...

By AFPHistoric forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher...

By AFP/Aishwarya KUMARWhen wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop...

By AFPSyria announced on Sunday a 200 percent hike in public sector wages and pensions, as it seeks to address a grinding economic crisis after the re...

By AFP/Olivier Morin with Johanna WastfeltIn the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels fo...